"On the Marne at Champigny", a beautiful pond scene with a group of ducks foraging, resting and swimming. William Baptiste Baird was born in Chicago but as an adult, he moved to Paris to perfect his painting technique. Baird was a painter of farm animals, rural subjects, and small animals. In his painting of the countryside of Paris, Barbizon, Brittany and Lake Geneva, he primarily focused on local rural scenes and animals such as cows, chicks, hens and rabbits.Signed lower right. Provenance: acquired at William Doyle in '85.Overall size: 19 x 24 in.Sight size: 12 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.Please note that all sales are final. No refunds will be given under any circumstances.